Want to learn how to be a leader, make commitments, take risks and increase
your inner security? Lauren Burnett has established a company called Inside-Out,
which deals with inner quality management, the next step after total quality
management. Burnett, a speaker, trainer and coach, presents workshops for individuals
and corporations on personal excellence, empowerment and leadership. Burnett
conducts both one-on-one sessions and public workshops. Two upcoming workshops
are Wednesday, Nov. 1, and Saturday, Nov. 4, at the Euclid Ninth Street Tower.
Call (216) 572-1890 to register.
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Karen Konrad, founder and owner of Laser Recharge Cleveland Inc., reports she's realizing an eight-year dream this month by purchasing her own building at 4301 Regal Ave. in Brunswick. Konrad started recycling laser, ink jet and copier cartridges eight years ago. Konrad, who originally was with Realty One, now employs eight people, including her sister-in-law Michelle Konrad, whom she says has been instrumental in bringing the business to more than $750,000 a year in sales. Konrad, who will also be selling new and refurbished copiers and printers in her new retail space, will pick up your used cartridges for free and refill them for only $12, less than half what they cost new.
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Realty One has added the services of the business research firm DATAGROUP to the package of services it offers corporate transferees to Greater Cleveland, according to Pat Mead, president of Realty One Corporate Relocation. Since a move to a new city often means spouses have to give up their jobs, DATAGROUP helps them find new jobs once they've moved. DATAGROUP's "First Report" will supply Realty One information tailor-made around the spouse's job experience, skills and needs, along with data about the area's businesses and organizations. First Report will also run job openings, initial contacts, salary parameters and articles of interest regarding job-search strategies, according to Hannah Gleisser, president of DATAGROUP.
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Betsie Norris has just been named executive director of the Adoption Network, Cleveland ... Katie Solender has been appointed coordinator of exhibitions in the Curatorial Division of the Cleveland Museum of Art. She was previously in the Museum's education department ... Also at the Museum, Stephanie Stebich is leaving the Brooklyn Museum to become executive assistant to CMA director Robert P. Bergman ... Ann Fairhurst, formerly director of foundation relations, has been named director of foundation and corporate relations of Lake Erie College in Painesville. She has also been named to the board of the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, the second largest regional conservation organization in the country ... Joyce Penhallurick of Penhallurick & Associates has joined forces with Rick Hyer, longtime marketing director for Playhouse Square ... Eva Manning has been appointed catering sales manager for the Cleveland Marriott Society Center ... Carol Probstfeld is now vice president of finance at Notre Dame College.
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Substitute for the water cooler — Home Alone, a year-old support group started by Timy Sullivan of Wing House Communication. "My idea for starting this," she says, "was to break down the isolation for persons who work out of their home." The group, now numbering over 100, meets the second Friday of every month at 7:30 a.m. at the RoseCart Coffee House at 40 E. Washington St., Chagrin Falls, with a different speaker each morning. For information about joining call Tonsi at 543-2631 or Chapman at
572-5733.
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The Ohio Aerospace Institute (OAI), a consortium of nine Ohio universities, NASA Lewis Research Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and a number of private companies, has named Lynne M. Hammer manager of the statewide Interactive Video Network. The consortium's goal is to enhance Ohio and United States economic competitiveness.
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Mary Ann Jackson has been named president of marketing and corporate communications for the Greater Cleveland Growth Association. Most recently she was director of communications for Diebold Inc. ... Doris O'Donnell, a longtime Cleveland reporter most recently with The Plain Dealer, has left the paper to do free-lance writing ... The Brenda Kroos Gallery is celebrating a half decade in Cleveland's historic Warehouse District with a Fifth Anniversary Show featuring the works of painter Jim Bird ... Janine Murray of Precision Metalforming Association in Richmond Heights is leaving for Chicago to set up an office for the company there.
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The Cleveland outplacement firm Russell, Rogat Transition Specialists Inc.
has added a Mexico City office, according to co-owners Jane Russell and Amy
Rogat. The company just finished an enormous job for Bancomera, which was privatized
a couple years ago, by instructing 60 trainers and setting up 10 transition
centers to help 10,000 former employees with outplacement. Now the Cleveland
company is working with Coca-Cola and the Ford Motor Co. in Mexico. Founded
in 1984, the company now has 21 employees in its Beachwood office and has just
opened the Career Strategy Center, where people can discuss things such as how
to work your way up through a company. Support groups also meet at the Beachwood
office.